Does anybody here have any practical tips to help me start out?

Anyone else use SugarCRM for their practice?

Again, their education is limited to the practices and techniques Than Merrill and Paul Esajian use in their REI business.

The lower floor is entirely under height and the fellow that ran his GP practice hadn't done any improvements in decades.

Yes, there are occasionally large judgments, but they are rarer than popular culture would have you believe. 

I've found that my experiences living elsewhere have helped me understand how different areas of the country work (prices, rents, culture, opportunities, etc). 

I've actually started looking at a 4-plex in Bay City just to practice running the numbers to see what might be a possibility.

Like anything the more you do searches the more you're going to learn, so I would practice and ask questionsThere's something called a current owner search, at least where I'm at and they only cost about $40.

You may want to acquire property through standard practice which will likely require you to have a job that qualifies you for a mortgage.

Hi Regina, there is a huge group of DMV experts with a lot of real time experience on lending, best housing practices,  tax strategies, you name it.